Republicans in El Paso County on Tuesday began casting votes for the person they want to see challenge Senate President John Morse in a recall election, even as an appeal was filed in Denver District Court that could derail the election. A mixture of about 50 GOP precinct leaders and elected officers from within Senate District 11 will select either Jaxine Bubis or Bernie Herpin to go h...

An identical protest has now been filed in court, with Morse attorney's asking that the court offer a preliminary injunction that does not require Hickenlooper to set an election date until the courts resolve the appeal.

over 12 thousand voters, whom many are democrats, don't want an injunction of any kind. get used to it morse, and call off your dogs.

An identical protest has now been filed in court, with Morse attorney's asking that the court offer a preliminary injunction that does not require Hickenlooper to set an election date until the courts resolve the appeal.

over 12 thousand voters, whom many are democrats, don't want an injunction of any kind. get used to it morse, and call off your dogs.

I'm afraid NOT! Bernie Herpin was a stonewalling, worthless city councilman who was absolutely non-responsive to his constituents....I have the emails to prove it.

I want John Morse out of office as much as the next person, but this is another example where we (the voters) are forced accept whatever garbage the GOP wants to offer as a candidate. I will vote for him while holding my nose, just to get Morse out of office.

My only hope is that someone of REAL substance will come forward and run for that office next year, because Bernie Herpin is not who I want representing me!

The identical legal challenges submitted by Morse and Giron were clearly and comprehensively rejected by the office of Secretary of State -so completely, in fact, that even a renewed challenge in the normally Left-leaning Denver District Court faces an uphill battle:http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/20 ... ict-court/

I'm afraid NOT! Bernie Herpin was a stonewalling, worthless city councilman who was absolutely non-responsive to his constituents....I have the emails to prove it.

I want John Morse out of office as much as the next person, but this is another example where we (the voters) are forced accept whatever garbage the GOP wants to offer as a candidate. I will vote for him while holding my nose, just to get Morse out of office.

My only hope is that someone of REAL substance will come forward and run for that office next year, because Bernie Herpin is not who I want representing me!

Note that the Recall vote is a 2-part process - you do NOT need to vote for a replacement you don't want in order to vote out the incumbent:

1. Voters are asked, should the incumbent stay or should he go?It's a simple yes/no question - decided by the majority of votes cast.In a way, the more people vying to replace the incumbent, the better - since each will (separately) mobilize their supporters to GOTV.

2. IF (and ONLY if) the majority of votes cast in part 1 are to remove the incumbent, a (separate) vote is cast to determine his/her successor.The candidate receiving the most votes becomes the replacement.It could actually be a POSITIVE to have a 3rd party competing to replace the incumbent, since that motivates that party (and the party's candidate) to turn out and vote against the incumbent; otherwise, there's a potential risk that they would simply sit out the election, since they don't have a dog in the fight.

I'm afraid NOT! Bernie Herpin was a stonewalling, worthless city councilman who was absolutely non-responsive to his constituents....I have the emails to prove it.

I want John Morse out of office as much as the next person, but this is another example where we (the voters) are forced accept whatever garbage the GOP wants to offer as a candidate. I will vote for him while holding my nose, just to get Morse out of office.

My only hope is that someone of REAL substance will come forward and run for that office next year, because Bernie Herpin is not who I want representing me!

Note that the Recall vote is a 2-part process - you do NOT need to vote for a replacement you don't want in order to vote out the incumbent:

1. Voters are asked, should the incumbent stay or should he go?It's a simple yes/no question - decided by the majority of votes cast.In a way, the more people vying to replace the incumbent, the better - since each will (separately) mobilize their supporters to GOTV.

2. IF (and ONLY if) the majority of votes cast in part 1 are to remove the incumbent, a (separate) vote is cast to determine his/her successor.The candidate receiving the most votes becomes the replacement.It could actually be a POSITIVE to have a 3rd party competing to replace the incumbent, since that motivates that party (and the party's candidate) to turn out and vote against the incumbent; otherwise, there's a potential risk that they would simply sit out the election, since they don't have a dog in the fight.

A third party candidate is how we got Morse in the first place by splitting the conservative vote so tht Morse only needed a plurality to win the seat. You might want to rethink your thoughts on this one.

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I'm afraid NOT! Bernie Herpin was a stonewalling, worthless city councilman who was absolutely non-responsive to his constituents....I have the emails to prove it.

I want John Morse out of office as much as the next person, but this is another example where we (the voters) are forced accept whatever garbage the GOP wants to offer as a candidate. I will vote for him while holding my nose, just to get Morse out of office.

My only hope is that someone of REAL substance will come forward and run for that office next year, because Bernie Herpin is not who I want representing me!

So show them.

Claiming something is easy, following up on that claim is sometimes substantially more difficult.

But if you have them and want them to be considered make them known.

"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." (Barack Obama August 21, 2010)

dzerres wrote:Republicans: the party of lower spending spending $150,000 on a recall election where the target is term limited next time anyway. Very sad. I hope they lose just because of that.

By that logic the GOP should be opposed to spending money on any elections at all.

Try again. Election costs are accepted as part of the process.

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